(1) This investigation examined phonetic variation in multisyllable babbling of infants from 0.7 to 0.11.
(2) The basis of this investigation was to examine assumptions present in major models of infant vocal development which suggest systematic developmental increases in phonetic variation of these babbles, and posit separate stages of repetitive (multisyllables with non-varied phonetic elements) and non-repetitive (phonetically varied multisyllables) babbling.
(3) Multisyllables were produced with phonetic variation at or near the beginning of multisyllable babbling, which failed to support the existence of distinct stages of repetitive and nonrepetitive babbling.
(4) Objectively reviewing the evidence, one notices that Obama's middle name is indeed shared by a recently deposed Iraqi dictator, and the president's first and last name contain superfluous multisyllables.
(5) The second patient improved at 10 mg, got worse at 30 mg, and improved again at 10 mg; he increased again to 4.44 at 10 mg. Functionally, both of the patients, their families, and the hospital staff noticed marked improvement in producing multisyllable words and providing information in sentence form.
(6) The multisyllable vocalizations were categorized based on the presence or absence of phonetic variation, and the source of that variation (place change, manner change or both).
Polysyllable
Definition:
(n.) A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just like Rees-Mogg, Johnson developed his public “Bojo” persona alongside a befuddled-looking Paul Merton, where he learned that looking dim but cranking out the polysyllables was a winning combination.